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Isaiah chapter 17 verse 7.

In that day, man will look to his maker and his eyes will look on the holy one of

Israel. The whole picture here in Isaiah chapter 17 is God denouncing idolatry, denouncing

all these foreign gods that are being worshipped crafted by human hands.

And God is saying there's coming a day when man will look not to the work of his own hands, but will look to the maker.

The one who makes all things, the one who is the creator of the world and the one who forms and fashions our lives by his hands.

Our eyes will look to him.

He is the holy one of Israel and we will realize there is no one like him.

So this was a day of idolatry in Isaiah chapter 17 verse 7 and we would be foolish to think that we are not surrounded

by such idolatry in our day right now as well.

The fact is we are tempted on a continual basis to worship other things, to worship people,

to worship pursuits, possessions, position.

So many good things even that we are attempted to trust in, give our affection and our

attention to in a way that pulls us away from looking to God, giving our

attention and affection to God supremely above all things.

And the reality is a day's coming when we're all going to look at God as our maker and we're going to realize how futile these

things in the world were that we sought after and we pursued and we've

Loved and even gave our lives to so we just got a root out continually in all of our lives Any every bit of idolatry anything that we're tempted to worship, to trust in, to look to, to lean on instead of God.

So God help us, we pray.

God help us, not just on that day in the future, but this day right now, help us to look to you as our

maker, to fix our eyes on you as the holy one. There's no one like you, there's nothing like you. We need you alone. We trust in you alone. We love you alone. We want to turn aside from all

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